Finished my Egypt game. I have to agree with the above that Egypt is best suited to mid difficulty levels so you can grab a bunch of wonders. My game was only on Prince, and I dominated despite only conquering 1 free city. I didn't get any cities from loyalty flipping. Everything else was settled by me. But even with an average amount of cities, I did fairly well. I got #7 ranking of Ashoka.
I'll include a couple of screenshots. Experienced players won't get anything out of this since I'm not a top level player, but perhaps this could be useful for less experienced players who may see how to put districts and wonders on rivers. Ignore my industrial zone placement though
, that's hardly ideal. They were essentially dead tiles, so I didn't mind putting those 2 industrial zones there, but there was no adjacency. I have better adjacency down in my southern cities where I have more mines. I wasn't focused on production this game anyways. I just had a spare district to place and so I did.
One good thing about Prince and King is it only takes 1 holy site to get a religion, though occasionally I fail to get one, just depends on who my opponents are and their focus. This adjacency was +3 which is enough to get all my cities converted to my religion and keep them that way. Holy site was next to a river as well, bonus.
Campus is only +1 adjacency, but next to a river for the faster build time. I think Egypt's 15% production bonus may actually be more useful on Epic and Marathon speed since higher speeds may get poor rounding and not really shave off many turns. I played on Epic speed (my save game is in my first post in this thread).
Broadway was built next to a river, that's the real flashy one to the left of my capital and slightly North.
Government Plaza built on the river just 1 tile SW of my capital. Not the ideal place as I only ended up with 1 adjacent district, I just didn't have any where else to build it, and I wanted to the bonus asap for settlers.
Commercial Hub built on the river just to the West of the Government Plaza
The wonder (Casa) built to the South of them isn't on a river, but a dead desert tile. I usually don't build this wonder, and often fail at building it.
Kilwa wonder was built on the coast on a mostly useless tile, but not a river. I kind of wish I hadn't built this wonder as I needed my capital to build other things at the time, but it all worked out. I ended up building Potala palace elsewhere.
The city of Swenett has (going left to right somewhat clockwise) a Neighborhood on the river, Commercial Hub on the River, Great Zimbabwe on the river, Campus on the river, Oxford University on the river, and the industrial zone (no river, not great placement but a useless tile for anything else).
Abydos in the far NorthWest has Forbidden City built on a river and Theater Square built on a river.
I'm happy I took advantage of their bonus as much as I did.
I'll include this picture for people who are still unsure of National Park placement. I probably could have made more, but 2 was enough. I was able to have a decent number of Seaside Resorts, and I had a lot of theater squares, so more was not needed.
You can see Ruhr Valley was built on the river, Eiffel Tower was built on a river, a couple commercial hubs on river, Big Ben obviously on a river as it has to be, I also have a couple Sphinx's on this picture. One right next to Kilamanjaro on the Uranium. I could have removed it, but I had Uranium elsewhere and it wasn't important at that point.
Oh and I also have a lot of neighborhoods in these pictures. Shopping Malls can help with tourism a little bit, and all of my neighborhoods had them. This was a culture win in case it wasn't apparent.
Hopefully these threads are useful for newer players to the game to get an idea how to take advantage of Civ specific abilities.